"Theatrically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... possession of the man who has wrought our ruin. He is there," and he pointed theatrically ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... arrival in London, Garrick entered himself at Lincoln's Inn, and he also put himself under the tuition of Mr. Colson, an eminent mathematician at Rochester. But as he applied himself little to the study of the law, his proficiency in mathematics and philosophy was not extensive. His mind was theatrically led, and nothing could divert his thoughts from the study of that to which his genius so powerfully prompted him. He had L1,000 left him by his uncle at Lisbon, and he engaged for a short time in the wine trade, in partnership ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various
... scenes, though in themselves extremely ingenious and significant, nevertheless, in regard to the progress of the action, possess an accidental appearance; many again, while they are in the conception theatrically effective, are but slightly sketched,—rhapsodical fragments without beginning or end, in which the poet opens for a moment a surprising prospect, and then immediately drops the curtain again: whereas in the truly dramatic poem, intended ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... to install a hasheesh den here!" I could not help thinking as I followed at Allen's heels to the head of the stairs, where two of his men worked with crowbars to prize open that theatrically dilapidated door. Behind the pair who worked were the others who had entered by the window below; and hardly had we taken our places in the strange queue, when with a loud groan the door gave way. The couple in front almost fell into a dark passage ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson |
